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U.S. President Barack Obama tours the ArcelorMittal steel mill in Cleveland, Ohio, in this November 14, 2013 file photo. As Washington tightened its belt in recent years, the budget cuts sliced more deeply in states where President Obama is unpopular, according to a federal spending analysis by Reuters. Between the 2009 and 2013 fiscal years, funding for a wide swath of discretionary grant programs, from Head Start preschool education to anti drug initiatives, fell by an average of 40 percent in Republican-leaning states like Texas and Mississippi. To match Exclusive USA-POLITICS/SPENDING REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/Files (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS COMMODITIES POLITICS)